Known to many as the fictional EastEnders' borough of Walford, London's new real-life E20 postcode district in and around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is unstoppable. Cultural quarters, new homes and 60,000 new jobs are just the start.

Goodluck Hope, a new Docklands neighbourhood, is unveiled this week, one of the last elements of an ambitious regeneration programme at Leamouth Peninsula, formed by a bend in the River Lea before it drops into the Thames just east of Canary Wharf.

Period terraces that survived the Blitz and an award-winning reborn housing estate characterise this no-nonsense east London spot, that also offers a city farm, top state schools, and a church which can date its ministry back to the 10th century...